Nevron Chart for SharePoint

Nevron Chart for SharePoint 2007/2010 2011.1 introduces:

• Parameters and drill down reports - This exciting new feature allows for the development of interactive dashboards and drill down reports. Parameters can be consumed from any expression, they can be passed as arguments to the newly added JumpToReport action. Parameters can also be directly integrated into any SharePoint page.
• SharePoint List and WebPartTable data sources connection - The Chart Web Part has the ability to connect to SharePoint List and WebPartTable data sources that reside in a StaticSite (fixed site), CurrentSite (dynamic site) and CurrentWeb (dynamic web). The site resolution mode allows you to develop web parts templates that can be directly deployed to production environments without the need to refactor the data source connection.
• WebParts Config File - The new Web Parts Config File provides the ability to globally (per site-server) configure some user interface elements visibility and some aspects of the web parts behavior through a configuration file. This allows you to fine tune the web parts to perform better and more reliably in the context of your SharePoint environment.
• Charts are now using deferred rendering - This allows for the instant showing of very complex SharePoint pages as the Nevron Chart Web Part will defer the data aggregation and rendering tasks in separate AJAX requests to the server. This allows for faster data processing that fully utilizes your server capabilities, as separate AJAX requests can be handled by different threads of your server. It also helps the user to actually see what is currently being processed, opposed to the immediate rendering mode in which the SharePoint page gets served to the client after all web parts have aggregated the data and rendered the respective visual representation.
• Automatic Refresh - The Chart Web Part can now be instructed to automatically refresh itself at the client side, at user specified intervals of time. This allows for the development of real time dashboards that automatically update themselves at the client side through AJAX, and eliminates the need for manual web page refresh.
• Web Part Designer - The Chart designer now show the current user, site and web and other info about the context of which they are performing the web part editing.
• Image Fill Style - A new Image Fill Style has been added to all Fill Style editors. This feature allows you to display image based textures on all chart elements that have an associated fill style.
• Connection to Custom Web Parts - Provides the ability to connect the Chart web part to other web parts that implement the IWebPartTable interface. This allows you to develop custom web parts that surface any type of data, that cannot be accessed by the currently available data source connections.
• Performance Improvements - The Chart control document building and rendering has been completely revised. As a result you should see significant speed improvement.
• Non-Overlapping Data Labels - All charting types (Cartesian, Polar and Radar charts) now support automatic data label layout. The data label layout prevents labels from overlapping in both ordinal and scatter charts and works in 2D and 3D appearance modes.
• Const Lines and Const Ranges with texts - The Chart axes have been extended to support const lines with texts as well as const ranges.
• Axis Orientation - All Cartesian axes now support the axis orientation feature.
• XML formatted texts - The XML formatted texts feature is extended to support additional XML tags that allows you to specify the text background and border.
• Line and Point Charts data resampling - The Line and Point charting types support options for automatic data resampling. This allows for the visualization of very large datasets.
• Chart Legends Improvements - The legends have additional layout options - added are the Horizontal and Vertical wrap options that allow the legend to automatically wrap the items when the horizontal or vertical space allocated for it is exceeded.
• Chart Aspect in 2D - Chart areas have additional options that allow finer control over the chart aspect in 2D.
• Additional Features - The Area, Line, Pie, Error Bar, Step Line, Point and Surface charting types have additional features.
• New Chart Examples - Several new Chart examples have been included with the new version.

Additional Improvements:

• You no longer need to be the site administrator to visually browse the sites, webs, lists and views.
• The Web Parts are now using only FIPS (stands for "U.S. Government Federal Information Processing Standards") compliant cryptography algorithms. This allows for the safe deployment of Nevron Web Parts to FIPS enabled SharePoint servers.
• The Web Parts are no longer using state files – resolved permission/security issues and improves the web parts behavior in farm environments.
• Connecting to Excel Services has been fixed.
• The SPLIT function from the formula engine has been added.

Nevron Vision for SharePoint 2010 Vol. 1 introduces:

• The leading gauge web part for SharePoint
• Both charts and gauges can now bind the Excel Services
• You can inject custom code in both charts and a gauges
• Actions can now be associated with the chart walls and axes.
• New visual expression editor (Fx editor) that lets you author expressions visually and more quickly. The Fx editor is available anywhere an expression can be specified (grouping, filtering, sorting expressions, titles, labels, chart data values, gauge formulas etc).
• New statistical functions - MEDIAN, PERCENTILE, VARIANCE and STDDEV
• New type functions - TONUM, TODATETIME, TOBOOL

Fixed problems:

• Visually the rendering Width/Height of the chart was clamped on specific non English servers (language dependant).
• Text editors are now implemented as text areas, thus allowing for texts with any markup to be used.
• The chart interference problem with other third party web parts has been fixed.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint General Features

• Support for SharePoint Server 2007 - Nevron Chart for SharePoint introduces a new level of data visualization, designed to enhance your digital dashboards and reports in SharePoint enviroment.
• Support for Multiple Charting Areas - Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of charting areas. Each charting area has its own charting type and can be rendered in 2D or 3D mode. Charting areas can be automatically or manually arranged.
• Support for Multiple Legends - Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of legends. Each values data grouping can be assigned to a different legend. Legends can be manually positioned or docked to chart, chart areas and plot areas.
• Support for Multiple Titles - Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of titles. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to chart, chart areas and plot areas.
• Support for Binding to Diverse Data Sources - Nevron Chart for SharePoint can bind to any ODBC, OLEDB or SQLServer data source and to the SharePoint specific Business Data Catalog.
• Pivot Data Aggregation - Nevron Chart for SharePoint supports advanced pivot data aggregation features. You can use formula expressions to group, filter and sort the data. Data groupings are created for chart categories, series and values via client-side drag and drop. Numerous functions for different mathematical, statistical, date-time, logical and text operations ensure that the pivot aggregation is flexible enough to meet even the most complex data analysis scenarios.
• Fast Web Based Chart Designer - Nevron Chart for SharePoint features an advanced chart designer, which is built with jQuery UI. The chart designer is fully ajaxified and supports all major web browsers. It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the server-client communication is brought to a minimum, the client-side is pure HTML/CSS with jQuery and the server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint Charting Types

Bar Charts (Horizontal and Vertical) - available in 2D and 3D - A Bar Chart displays a sequence of horizontal or vertical bars (shapes) of lengths proportional to the value that they represent. Bar charts are usually used for comparing two or more values or representing the contribution of each value to a total (stacks).

• Horizontal and Vertical Bar Chart Subtypes: Clustered, Stacked, Stacked Percent, Series, XY Scatter, XY Scatter Clustered, XY Scatter Stacked, XY Scatter Stacked Percent, XYZ Scatter, XYZ Scatter Clustered, XYZ Scatter Stacked, XYZ Scatter Stacked Percent
• Bar Chart Shapes: - Bar, Cylinder, Cone, Inverted Cone, Pyramid, Inverted Pyramid, Ellipsoid, Smooth Edge Bar, Cut Edge Bar

Area Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Area Charts display a sequence of filled areas between the axis (or an origin line) and the value line. Area charts are usually used for comparing two or more values or representing the contribution of each value to a total (stacks), usually over time or other X measurement.

• Area Chart Subtypes: - Series, Stacked, Stacked Percent, XY Scatter, XY Scatter Stacked, XY Scatter Stacked Percent

Smooth Area Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Smooth Area charts are similar to Standard Area charts, the difference being that the successive data points are connected with cubic spline segments instead of straight lines.

• Smooth Area Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter

Line Charts - available in 2D and 3D - A Line Chart displays a sequence of line segments that are sequencially connected. Line charts are usually used to show a trend or how a value contributes to a trend total (stacks), usually over time or other X measurement.

• Line Chart Subtypes: - Series, Stacked, Stacked Percent, XY Scatter, XY Scatter Stacked, XY Scatter Stacked Percent, XYZ Scatter, XYZ Scatter Stacked, XYZ Scatter Stacked Percent
• Line Chart Shapes: - Line, Tape, Tube, Ellipsoid

Smooth Line Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Smooth Line charts are similar to Line charts, the difference being that the successive data points are connected with cubic spline segments instead of straight lines.

• Smooth Line Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter

Step Line Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Step Line charts are similar to Line charts, the difference being that the successive data points are connected with horizontal and vertical segments instead of straight lines.

• Step Line Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter
• Step Line Chart Shapes: - Line, Tape, Tube, Ellipsoid

Pie Charts - available in 2D and 3D - A Pie Chart is a circular chart divided into sectors, where the arc length of each sector is proportional to the quantity it represents. Pie Chart data labels support - Center, Rim, Spider and Nonoverlapping Labels.

• Pie Chart Shapes: - Pie, Torus, Smooth Edge Pie, Cut Edge Pie, Ring (Donut), Smooth Edge Ring, Cut Edge Ring
• Point Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Point Charts display 1, 2 or 3-dimensional data as points in a Cartesian coordinate system. They are often used for XY and XYZ scatter plots especially when a large number of data points need to be displayed.

Point Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter, XYZ Scatter

• Point Chart Shapes: - Bar, Cylinder, Cone, Inverted Cone, Pyramid, Inverted Pyramid, Sphere, Ellipse, Cross, Diagonal Cross, Line Cross, Line Diagonal Cross, Star

Bubble Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Bubble Charts display multi dimensional data as points in a Cartesian coordinate system. The size of each point is determined by an additional size value. The actual size of the bubble is interpolated to be in the MinSize - MaxSize range.

• Bubble Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter, XYZ Scatter
• Bubble Chart Shapes: - Bar, Cylinder, Cone, Inverted Cone, Pyramid, Inverted Pyramid, Sphere, Ellipse, Cross, Diagonal Cross, Line Cross, Line Diagonal Cross, Star

Float Bar Charts - available in 2D and 3D - A Floating Bar Chart displays a sequence of vertical bars, each bar representing a one-dimensional value range. A Floating Bar chart can be used as a Gantt chart if the Y axis is in date-time scale mode. Gantt charts are popular in project management for planning the use of resources over time.

• Float Bar Chart Subtypes: - Series, Clustered, Stacked, XY Scatter, XYZ Scatter, XYZ Scatter Stacked
• Float Bar Chart Shapes: - Bar, Cylinder, Cone, Inverted Cone, Pyramid, Inverted Pyramid, Ellipsoid, Smooth Edge Bar, Cut Edge Bar

High Low Charts - available in 2D and 3D - A High-Low Chart displays a sequence of data points, each representing a one-dimensional value range. The begin values of consecutive data points are connected with a "low" line. The end values are connected with a "high" line. The area between these two lines is filled with different colors, depending on whether the "high" line runs above or below the "low" line.

• High-Low Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter

Stock Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Stock charts are used to plot stock data, usually over time. Stock charts use color coding to distinguish between stock prices, which went up or down when the stock closed.

• Stock Chart Subtypes: - Series, XY Scatter
• Stock Chart Shapes: - OHLC stick, HLC stick, Candle Stick

Funnel Charts - available in 2D and 3D - The Funnel Chart is similar to a Stacked Percent Bar Chart with only one category. It represents 100% of the summary values for the data items included in the chart. Funnel Charts are often used to represent stages in a sales process and show the amount of potential revenue for each stage. This type of chart can also be useful in identifying potential problem areas in an organization's sales processes. Nevron Funnel Chart provides control over labeling, neck width and height and points gap.

Radar Charts - available only in 2D - A Radar Chart plots the values of each category along a separate axis that radiates from the center of the chart and ends on the outer ring. A line connects all the values from the same series and optionally the area enclosed by the line can be filled.

• Radar Chart Subtypes: - Lines, Areas

Polar Charts - available only in 2D - Polar Charts display 2-dimensional data points in a polar coordinate system. The position of a point is specified by its distance from the center and a rotation angle. The points are connected by a line and optionally the area enclosed by the line can be filled.

• Polar Chart Subtypes:- Lines, Areas, Points

Surface Charts - available only in 3D - Surface Charts display a surface connecting the adjacent data points. Multiple series are not supported by surface charts. That is why only one series is created which takes the properties of the first values data grouping displayed in the Surface Chart chart area. Additional series append values to this series (in the case of a Mesh Surface) or add depth to the surface grid (in the case of Grid Surface).

• Surface Chart Subtypes:- Grid, Mesh, Triangulated
• Drawing Modes:- Scaled, Flat at Axis Begin, Flat and Axis End

Combo Charts - available in 2D and 3D - Combo Charts are used to combine certain series types within the same chart area. Series types are specified per values data groupings. There are many per series type options. You can combine the following series types: Bar, Area, Smooth Area, Line, Smooth Line, Step Line, Point, Bubble, High Low and Stock.

• Combo Charts Subtypes:- Series, XY Scatter

Nevron Chart for SharePoint Chart Axes Features - Complete set of axis-related features designed to target even the most compelling charting requirements. The axes are largely automatic, allowing you to focus on your project, but if needed you can customize every aspect of their appearance and behavior.

• Primary and Secondary X and Y Axes - Nevron Chart for SharePoint supports Primary and Secondary X and Y Axes. You can specify the X and Y axes on which each values data grouping (chart series) is scaled. Advanced settings allow you to make use of axis crossings, docking and percent positioning.
• Depth Axis - In 3D charting, the axis model is extended with an additional depth (Z) axis. The Z axis allows data to be plotted along the depth of the chart. It automatically scales in Numeric or Categorical scale mode, allowing the creation of XYZ scatters and XZ-plane categorical plots.
• Special Radar and Polar Axes - Special Radar and Polar axes are exposed for Radar and Polar charting types. These aim to provide advanced settings for complex requirements related to these charting types.
• Numeric Scale - The Numeric Scale is automatically selected, depending on the respective chart dimension type. The following sub-modes are available:
• Number scale - displays any data in numeric format (profit, sales, percentages etc.)
• Angular scale - displays angular data in degrees, radians or grads (used in polar charts).
• DateTime scale - suitable for display of date-time data.
• ValueTimeline scale - advanced date-time scale, widely used in financial charts.
• RangeTimeline scale - advanced date-time scale, widely used in financial and project management charts.
• Categorical Scale - The Categorical Scale is automatically selected, depending on the respective chart dimension type. It has the following advanced features:  supports unlimited grouping levels, grouped and single-row labels, mutliple presets for groupings appearance and layout.
• Advanced Axis Positioning Options - Axes can be docked to the chart sides (or polar rim) or crossed with another axis (at value or percent). In addition, axes can share a single chart edge.
• Axis Title - Full control over the appearance, position and angle of the axis titles. The axis titles text supports advanced rich-text formatting.
• Ruler - Control over the begin and end ruler caps appearance and shape. Option to highlight scale breaks on the ruler.
• Axis Range - Nevron Chart for SharePoint provides control over the axis range. Ability to inflate that range in several modes.
• Gridlines - Nevron Chart for SharePoint supports major and minor gridlines, with full appearance customization and control over the walls on which they are displayed.
• Ticks - Support for major and minor ticks with control over their appearance and position.
• Axis Stripes  - Axis Stripes highlight repeating ranges of data on the chart walls, with a controllable show/hide pattern.
• Axis Sections - Axis Sections conditionally modify the appearance of axis ticks, gridlines and labels, provided they are within a user-specified data range(s). This feature helps you to highlight important ranges of data along the axis.
• Const Lines - Const Lines show constant lines (reference lines) at user-specified value(s). In 3D mode they are displayed as planes perpendicular to their owner axis.
• Breaks - Axis Scale Breaks skip a range of values on the axis. They are used to increase the readability of the chart, in cases when the data is clustered in distant data ranges (for example: half the data points are around 100 and the other half are around 1,000,000). Without scale breaks, such data cannot be visually compared. Nevron Chart for SharePoint provides support for manual and automatic scale breaks with full control over appearance and behavior. X and Y scale breaks can be crossed. Scale breaks are also displayed in 3D Mode (unique feature).
• Label Layout - Nevron Chart for SharePoint provides advanced axis-label layout options, which let you resolve very complex axis-label overlapping cases.
• Label Formatting - Label Formatting controls the formatting of values along numeric scales. Many advanced options for currency, percentage, scientific and date time label formatting are available.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint  Data Aggregation Features

• Nevron Chart for SharePoint uses the Nevron Pivot Data Aggregation Engine. A simplified pivot charting model was first introduced in MS Excel - if you are using this feature of MS Excel then you already know the basics of pivot charting and its power.
• In MS Excel, data groupings are simply created for field values and a predefined set of aggregate functions are available for calculating the series data point values.
• In Nevron Chart for SharePoint you use expressions to define how the data is grouped, filtered and sorted. Expressions can reference field values from the data set and you can use numerous mathematical, statistical, logical, date-time, and text functions to define complex grouping, filtering and sorting rules. Special aggregate functions are available for computing aggregate values (like sum, average etc.)
• Because the Nevron Pivot Data Aggregation Engine is data source invariant, this allows you to create pivot charts from any data source, which can provide a table representation of its data.
• Because Nevron Chart for SharePoint and Nevron Chart for Reporting Services are built on top of the Nevron Pivot Component framework, they are generally having the same functionality and features. This helps you streamline your IT reporting efforts and reduce your IT staff learning curve - be it SharePoint or Reporting Services - you know that Nevron provides the same powerful and consistent pivot charting functionality.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint Additional Customization Properties – The following is a brief list of some of the most important additional customization options that are visually exposed by the chart designer:

Walls

• Walls visibility
• Walls appearance
• Walls depth (in 3D)

Legends

• Advanced positioning options
• Items layout preferences
• Control over legend marks
• Header and Footer
• Gridlines
• Stripes

Per Series (Values Data Groupings) Properties

• Series options (for combo charts)
• Display on chart area
• Display on X axes
• Display on Y axes
• Display on legend
• Markers - control over shape, size, position and appearance
• Legend - control over the data describing the series in the legend
• Data Labels - control over format, appearance and layout
• Action - tooltips, jump to URL

Data Groupings Editors

• Edit grouping expressions
• Edit filter expressions
• Edit sorting expressions and direction

Rendering

• Support for different image formats
• Specify resolution
• Image sizing options
• Gray scale rendering
• On/off image map rendering
• Control over the currently used culture settings. You can select a custom culture or synchronize the currently used culture with the user regional settings.

Appearance Customizations

• Fill Style editor - helps you define the filling of an element. Provides options for solid color, gradient, image and advanced gradient fill types.
• Stroke Style editor - helps you define the outline/stroke of an element. Provides options for line caps and joins, line pattern and color.
• Shadow Style editor - helps you define the shadow which is casted by an element. Provides options for solid, linear, radial blur and gaussian blur shadows.
• Text Style editor - helps you define the default appearance of a text element. Provides options for font size and type, font filling, outline, shadow, backplane etc.
• Frame Style editor - helps you define the frame of the component and its panels. Supports artistic/image borders.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint Advanced Features

• Speed - Nevron Chart for SharePoint is a fast rendering chart inside SharePoint - in both 2D and 3D modes.
• 3D Charting - Nevron Chart for SharePoint includes 3D layouts and an advanced 3D feature set including: 11 predefined lighting modes, ability to specify element materials (control the way in which elements reflect light), largest charting types set in 3D, biggest set of shapes in 3D (applicable to pies, bars, markers, areas etc.)
• 2D Charting - Nevron Chart for SharePoint is a chart for SharePoint environment to provide Adobe Photoshop like image filter effects, which are applicable to all chart elements - these include bevel, emboss, lighting filters etc. When it comes to shadows it is the only chart for Share Point, which has soft shadows (based on Gaussian and Radial blur image filters).
• 2D/3D Consistency - Nevron Chart for SharePoint is consistent in 2D/3D modes. For example you can map gradients to elements in both 2D and 3D. Colors specified in 2D are inherited by materials in 3D. You can mix 2D and 3D chart areas in a single chart control.
• XY and XYZ scatters - Nevron Chart for SharePoint includes support for XY and XYZ scatters inside SharePoint.

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